Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River. He stripped off his drab prison clothes, threw them into the water, donned a fresh uniform with the jaunty red cap of the Moroccan spahis. Next day he sailed to Hanoi and was greeted on the dock by General René Cogny, wartime commander in the northern theater, who is still in command pending the Communist takeover. As he embraced Cogny, De Castries burst into tears. "Excuse me," he said. "It's foolish, but I cannot control my emotion." Then Cogny, also visibly moved, whisked the returned hero off to the villa that De Castries had lived...
Delaware is split. Except for one school district (Dover), the two southern counties have done little toward desegregation. Eight school districts in New Castle, the state's northern county, have varying plans to end segregation gradually. Wilmington pupils in the first six grades will be mixed this month; in nearby Newark, only the junior high and high school will be integrated...
Tourist lucky enough not to be on fixed!, prepaid tours fled northern France and England to find the sun in Spain, Italy and the CÔte d'Azur. "From Menton to Marseille, hotels were hanging out the "Complet" (full up) signs, often socking the dollar-heavy tourist as much as $9 a day for back rooms without running water. Nice and Cannes, sunny as usual, were so solidly booked that many late arrivals had to go 20 miles into the mountains to find a bed. Budget-minded travelers discovered a more economical sun-drenched paradise in Spain, where...
...detect approaching enemy bombers, the U.S. has spread a web of radar stations along its coastlines and across the wastes of northern Canada and Alaska. Except for Navy picket ships and patrolling "Pregnant Geese" (radar-laden Lockheed Super Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...mystery epidemic struck down children in northern India with 118 deaths reported (24 in Delhi. 50 in Lucknow, others in Benares and Allahabad). Tentative diagnosis: encephalitis. An all-out spraying campaign was launched to destroy sand flies and mosquitoes, which are suspected of carrying the virus...